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Adopt vs Readoption - What's the difference?

adopt | readoption |

As a verb adopt

is to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.

As a noun readoption is

being adopted back into a family or group.

adopt

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (with relationship specified) To take by choice into relationship, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.
  • (with relationship implied by context) To take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.
  • A friend of mine recently adopted a Chinese baby girl found on the streets of Beijing.
  • (with relationship implied by context) To obtain (a pet) from a shelter or the wild.
  • We're going to adopt a Dalmatian.
  • (with relationship implied by context) To take by choice into the scope of one's responsibility.
  • This supermarket chain adopts several families every Yuletide, providing them with money and groceries for the holidays.
  • To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally.(rfex)
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  • To select and take or approve.
  • to adopt the view or policy of another
    These resolutions were adopted .

    readoption

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • Being adopted back into a family or group
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=August 23, author=Lucinda Rosenfeld, title=Multiple Lives, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=Objectively, Miles realizes that Hayden is insane and past the point of rescue or readoption into mainstream society. }}